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| One arrested, two killed as Saudi police foil terror attack |
| 2016-05-02 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi interior ministry announced on Sunday that it had locked awayMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! one of the kingdom’s most wanted murderous Moslems Oqab Al-Otaibi and revealed the identities of two others killed in a foiled terror attack in the southwestern Bisha province on Friday. During a presser, Ministry of Interior front man Major General Mansour Al-Turki said Otaibi had remained on the lam for some time for his involvement in the attack on worshippers at Al-Mustafa mosque in Al-Dalwa village on Nov. 3, 2014. The front man also said two terror suspects were killed during a shootout with security forces in Bisha last Friday. The casualties were identified as Abdulaziz Ahmed Muhammad Al-Bakri Al-Shihri, 35, and Yasir Ali Yusef Al-Hoodi, 22. Al-Shihri was wanted for his part in a kaboom at a mosque used by members of a the local emergency forces in Asir last August. The attack claimed the lives of 12 emergency security officers and three others who were employees at the site. Al-Shihri was heavily armed at the time of the shootout and was laden with explosives which he carried and wore in a suicide belt. Al-Houdi, who was an expert in explosives, was also involved in the killing of Brig. Gen. Kattab Al-Otaibi, the front man added. Security forces also said they found arms, ammunition and cash from the possessions of the two suspects. |
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